Will Hillary run in 2016? It's the question that her most ardent supporters have been asking themselves since 2008.
According to The New York Times, Politico reported that Public Policy Polling had determined that if the Iowa caucuses were held last week Clinton would get 58 percent of the vote. Joe Biden raked in 17 percent.
It's not as if she hasn't read the tea leaves herself. In fact, she says, every day strangers come up and tell her she has an obligation to run and become the nation's first woman president.
'Oh, I’ve ruled it out, but you know me,' she tells the Times. 'Everybody keeps asking me. So I keep ruling it out and being asked.'
What she has not done, supporters and critics note, is rule it out.
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Right now she'd rather list all the things she won't do when she's no longer secretary of state.
'I am so looking forward to next year,' she told the Times. 'I just want to sleep and exercise and travel for fun. And relax. It sounds so ordinary, but I haven’t done it for 20 years. I would like to see whether I can get untired. I work out and stuff, but I don’t do it enough and I don’t do it hard enough because I can’t expend that much energy on it.'
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At 65, you can't deny her the impulse to relax a bit. But it’s highly unlikely she will for long.
But there is the matter of her history to consider too. If Hillary Clinton ran for president again, the Times observes, she would probably be the best-prepared candidate in American history. She has lived in the White House, she has served in the United States Senate, she knows virtually every head of state in the world. She's more than ready.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.paddyo | Nov 14, 2012, 02:57 PM EST
After the investigation into Benghazi, she will stay in bed.
BrianO | Nov 14, 2012, 10:14 AM EST
Time for the Irish Times reporters to do some actual work and report on some times that have relevance to Ireland or Irish themes. You have milked the election cow dry.
longislander1940 | Nov 13, 2012, 11:59 PM EST
Heard she's wine tasting down under in Australia.
longislander1940 | Nov 13, 2012, 11:53 PM EST
Another on that does not have to testify. I wonder what dirt Obama has on Hillary?
mairint | Nov 13, 2012, 07:55 PM EST
Let her sleep, along with her agenda. Sweet dreams!!
TisEyerish | Nov 13, 2012, 06:14 PM EST
Spare us, please...we have enough problems without having her in the White House. No, I'm not a Republican...I voted for Mr. Obama and am thrilled that he won re-election. I just don't think Hillary is worthy of being our President.
alisaann | Nov 13, 2012, 04:23 PM EST
I think it's a LONG SHOT, that hillary will run for PRESIDENT in 2016....but, really only TIME will tell if she will....and then there's the fact: will the country be READY for a FEMALE PRESIDENT?...people are having a hard time dealing with having a BLACK PRESIDENT....again, only TIME will tell. alisa
Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 03:41 PM EST
Look at all your posts Susan, YOU talk politics in each and every one -I have not addressed politics once!I am gonna put it simply ,so even you can understand.It ain't politics-it's treason to LET THOSE FOUR DIE!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 03:37 PM EST
Murph46- No that wasn't Mittens to whom I was referring with the dyed black hair, it was Reagan - who should have been tired for treason!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 03:35 PM EST
Murph46- Treason was providing arms to the Contra rebel groups with funds from sell arms to IRAN- The Democrats were going to try him for High Crimes and Misdemeanors but decided not to do so. That is a fact, he should have been impeached – dyed black hair and all! This is a political issue with you, why don’t you admit it!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 03:24 PM EST
PhlutiePhan - Pleeeez, what did Bush do when he received the warning that Bin Laden was going to strike?
PhlutiePhan | Nov 13, 2012, 03:04 PM EST
Obviously, the death of Chris Stevens won't be on her resume' and she doesn't appear too woried about it.
pilib04 | Nov 13, 2012, 02:20 PM EST
I'm with eiriamach on this one. If Hillary isn't running, I would certainly value her opinion on who should.
irishrose524 | Nov 13, 2012, 01:29 PM EST
I'd vote for her :-3
eiriamach | Nov 13, 2012, 12:39 PM EST
I remember the moment when I decided to support Barack instead of Hillary. The moderator in a 2008 debate asked whether health care was a right or a privilege. Hillary fudged the answer and showed she didn't understand the difference, while Obama unhesitatingly replied, "It's a right." Since that time, however, Hillary has learned and grown and served her country well. I'd support her now-- But -- there are hundreds of other qualified women. Hillary herself could probably name a dozen other qualified women in six seconds. Someone should ask her who she thinks should run.
Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 12:36 PM EST
Susan it's not political! If ,as reported and documented so far ,they asked for help,were refused,and died as a result.It most assuredly isn't political-what part of that don't YOU understand!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 12:17 PM EST
LOL oh you Repubs! No matter how you slice it, bale Bill and Hillary, or anyone else, your boy lost – you know, the one who fired thousands from their jobs while running Bain Capital so he could buy another home, traveled thousands of miles with a dog on the roof of his car, as a bully, in an abusive and horrendous attack on another boy – cut his hair, can’t do math, had his website ready to go when he “won,” has an elevator in his garage, is a pathological liar, - OMG – and you wonder why the Amercian people re-elected not only a real American, but a real human being!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 12:04 PM EST
crny925- Haven't you heard, the American people did "take them" Obama, with the help of both Clintons - won a week ago today YES YES YES!What they didn't "take" or want was Mittens and friends, Oh God, President "Mittens" only you and the Mittens folks "imagined" this happening - that is why all of you were so shell shocked a week ago today - like Karl Rovey making yet again, a fool of himself on national TV- !
phinsman | Nov 13, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
I am not a fan at all of Hillary Clinton. She voted for the war on Iraq, which in my opinion was a totally unethical thing to do. Irag had nothing to do with September 11th, nor did they have weapons of mass destruction. How many thousands of innocent people lost their lives due to our invasion.... many!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 11:59 AM EST
Murph46 - You have no clue as to what happened - quit trying to play CIA man and use this as a political issue, of what it is not! The American people expressed this a week ago today (YAAYYYYY!) I could car less about what happened (like Bush did about 9-11). America was more concerned about Sandy, and electing Obama who got OSAMA, then anything else! Is this all you can come with? You have not addressed what I said about BUSH. Your own party was so ashamed of him he wasn't even invited to the Republican National Convention - WAAAAAAA WAAAAAAA!
Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 11:08 AM EST
Susan-to withold help when it was requested by the embassy is a treasonous act!
crny925 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:53 AM EST
Please GOD NO! And you IRISH love her, BILL AND OBAMA so much.... you take them!
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:41 AM EST
Murph46 - You have got to be kidding? Where were you when 9-11 happened and 3000 people died right here on US grounds when Bush sat for 7 minutes reading to a bunch of kids and continued to AFTER he was told that America was attacked the SECOND time that morning! Then down the road, Bush stated about Osama bin Laden "I really don't spend that much time on him" YIKES- you have got to be kidding!!! Oh well, we Democrats realize that you Repubs will be licking your wounds for another four years - Now you know how we felt when we had to put up with the worst President in the history of the US - Bush - So lay off Clinton and I'll send you some cheese to have with your WHINE -
katieherk | Nov 13, 2012, 10:41 AM EST
OH, GOD, PLEASE DON'T SAY IT'S A POSSIBILITY. WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF HER AND BILL. LET HER SLEEP!!
cillowen | Nov 13, 2012, 10:34 AM EST
the strain would be too much for her - just look at her
susan724 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:31 AM EST
What a great loss for the American people and America! She is a brilliant woman who has done great things for America and has paved the way for Iran to open up to talks with the US - Two of the GREATEST Secretaries of State the US has ever had, Albright and CLinton!
Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 09:54 AM EST
She's finished when the Truth about the deaths in Benghazi come out!
Towngate | Nov 13, 2012, 07:31 AM EST
Lets hope they never stop asking - and she always says no!